So I went ahead and learned the tab for the Money version but then I found that if I play the same tab, but down a whole string, it ALMOST sounds like the Lumpy Gravy version. I'm just learning music, so bear with me, but it sounds like the recorded version is out of tune or something. Was the guitar on this track recorded and then played back at a different speed or something? I just can't get in tune with it. Hopefully I'm at least making sense. Any guitar geeks out there want to give me a tip on how to play this awesome song? Thanks in advance.

Without listening to the different versions, I might offer that he may have transposed the tune down a half octave. If you know what the melody sounds like in your head and you've got some accurate tabs you should be ok. Then if you want to transpose it yourself (up or down) then that should be fairly easy.

Yeah, it seems sped up on LG a bit so it's sorta "between keys." I play it starting with the B on the 2nd fret of the A string. That will either help you or totally mess you up!

It's a fun song to play.

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Looks like this song was in several different keys throughout Zappa's career.

1961 version (collected on The Lost Episodes) is in B-flat1967 WOIIFTM version is in G, the Lumpy Gravy version appears in D (but may be sped up from C)Subsequent versions are in the key of C (1975-76 tour version, the 1978 version with Shankar on violin).

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